Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...